Order: Galliformes | Family: Cracidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Tambopata, Madre de Dios
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Mato Grosso, Brasil
Status: The Spix’s Guan can be fairly common in lowland Amazonia, but has been recorded at elevations of up to 1700 m along the foothill of the Andes. This large Guan can be fairly common, but it has been extirpated in the forest surrounding human settlements due to subsistence hunting pressure by humans.
Name in Spanish: Pava de Spix o Pucacunga.
Sub-species: Spix’s Guan (Penelope jacquacu jacquacu) Spix, 1825.
Meaning of Name: Penelope: L. Pene=quasi or similar to, and lothos=crest. jaquacu: Tupi (Native Brasilian) jacu= native name for this bird, and guaçu= large.

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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 11/09/2014.